{"id":13306,"date":"2011-06-18T21:07:13","date_gmt":"2011-06-19T01:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=13306"},"modified":"2011-06-18T21:07:13","modified_gmt":"2011-06-19T01:07:13","slug":"diocese-of-niagara-the-wolves-are-circling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-niagara-the-wolves-are-circling\/","title":{"rendered":"Diocese of Niagara: the wolves are circling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagara.anglican.ca\/docs\/2011\/anglican-diocese-of-niagara-responds-to-supreme-court-decision.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Reflecting upon yesterday\u2019s Supreme Court of Canada\u2019s decision, Bishop Michael Bird, states: \u201cThe decision clears the way for us to proceed to a trial involving the disputed ownership of three parishes in the Diocese of Niagara. This matter has been deliberated upon at every level of our Canadian legal system and this most recent decision must surely remove any question as to our ownership of these properties. Like our counterparts in British Columbia, the issue of same-sex relationships is well behind us and we are fully engaged in the work of mission and re-visioning our church as it engages with and serves the people of this generation. The diocese has been very patient over these years but now we hope that this property dispute can be resolved quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Diocese of Niagara has instructed its legal counsel to move forward expeditiously to bring this matter to trial.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Enjoy the orange carpet, Mike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: Reflecting upon yesterday\u2019s Supreme Court of Canada\u2019s decision, Bishop Michael Bird, states: \u201cThe decision clears the way for us to proceed to a trial involving the disputed ownership of three parishes in the Diocese of Niagara. This matter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-niagara-the-wolves-are-circling\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[2058,2111],"class_list":["post-13306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-niagara","tag-bishop-michael-bird","tag-diocese-of-niagara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}